The Making of a Global Issue
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The Making of a Global Issue

A Semiotics of ‘Early Childhood’ in the United Nations

  1. 290 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Making of a Global Issue

A Semiotics of ‘Early Childhood’ in the United Nations

About this book

How do certain phenomena come to be recognised as global issues? And what enables a concept like 'early childhood'—once considered private and local—to be addressed alongside climate change, health, and human rights at the level of global governance? This book explores how early childhood has been constituted as a global issue within the United Nations. Grounded in semiotic theory and informed by linguistic philosophy, it reconstructs the communicative processes and cultural logics—especially those of universalisation—that underpin its rise to global relevance. With an original analytic approach and a focus on meaning-making in world culture, this study speaks to readers interested in global sociology, categorisation studies, cultural theory, and the politics of knowledge. It offers not only new insights into early childhood as a global issue, but also novel strategies for engaging empirically with processes of global institutionalisation. Miriam Tag, Dr. phil. Sociology, MA philosophy, poet and artist, works at the intersection of literature, arts and environmental humanities, with a focus on deepening planetary relations, sensibilities and imaginations.

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Publisher
LIT Verlag
Year
2026
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9783643968340
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Inhalt
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction: The Early Years of Human Life as a Global Issue
  5. 1. Naming: The Convergence of Terms on ‘Early Childhood’
  6. 2. STABILISING: ‘Early childhood’ in condensed and expanded semiotic forms
  7. 3. DEFINING: ‘Early childhood’ as a global category
  8. 4. SPECIFYING: The ‘young child’ as central social unit
  9. 5. RELATING: Child–Adult Relations as Basic Meaning Structures of the Issue
  10. 6. ACTUALISING: Continuities, Variations, and Forms of Synthesis, 1924–2015
  11. 7. Arguing: Rationalising and Sacralising Logics in Arguments
  12. Conclusion: The Making of a ‘Global Issue’ – In and Beyond ‘Early Childhood’, Language, and the United Nations

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